Update on the latest sports
Update on the latest sports — Nationals ace Max Scherzer is set to make his scheduled start against the Mets at Citi Field after leaving his previous outing early because of a hamstring issue. The three-time Cy Young Award winner lasted only one inning last Wednesday against New York due to a hamstring problem that first cropped up July 29 versus Toronto. But he felt good while throwing a bullpen Sunday and will try to keep Washington rolling in the wake of a 16-4 blowout over the Mets in the opener of a four-game series Monday.NBAFour teams vying for last West playoff spot in actionLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Memphis, Portland, San Antonio and Phoenix are the last four teams standing in the race for the last two play-in-game spots in the NBA’s Western conference. And all four teams are in action today.The margin between the eighth-place Grizzlies and 11th-place Spurs, at the start of the day, was just one game, and all four clubs had two games remaining. It was the first competitive match for Halep since she won the Dubai Championships in February for her 20th career WTA title. Before the Wimbledon champion recovered from a foot injury she sustained in Dubai, the coronavirus pandemic forced a five-month break. No. 2-seeded Petra Martic and No. 3 Elise Mertens also advanced. August 11, 2020 UMass is an independent in football and its decision affects only that sport. Most of UMass’ athletic teams compete in the Atlantic 10. Athletic director Ryan Bamford says the school will try to conduct a football spring season if possible. UMass joins fellow independent UConn, Old Dominion and all the schools in the Mid-American Conference and Mountain West — a total of 27 — in postponing its football season.MLBBlue Jays roam, where Buffalo’s home Associated Press 
Payne has spent the last 10 years at Kentucky, where he has been John Calipari’s associate head coach since 2014. He was part of the staff that won the 2012 national championship and won its first 38 games in 2014-15. The Wildcats reached four Final Fours and won 295 games with Payne working under Calipari. The 53-year-old Payne also spent five seasons as an assistant with Oregon. He will be reunited with former Wildcats Julius Randle and Kevin Knox in New York.TENNIS-PRAGUE OPENHalep advances in PraguePRAGUE, (AP) — Top-seeded Simona Halep had to fight hard to advance to the second round of the Prague Open in a three-set win over unseeded Polona Hercog. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Baseball’s nomads, the Toronto Blue Jays, finally move into their new home at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York, when they play the Miami Marlins. It’ll be the first time this year the Blue Jays are the actual host team. Canada’s government wouldn’t let them hold games at Rogers Centre in Toronto, fearful of opponents traveling into the city amid the coronavirus pandemic. Pittsburgh offered to let the Blue Jays play at PNC Park when the Pirates were on the road, but Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf wouldn’t sign off on it. That left the club’s Triple-A affiliate in Buffalo, which last hosted a regular-season Major League Baseball game in 1915 when the Buffalo Blues finished sixth in the eight-team Federalist League. Elsewhere in the majors:— Indians right-hander Mike Clevinger won’t make his scheduled start against the Cubs after Cleveland learned he joined rotation-mate Zach Plesac in violating COVID-19 protocols by going out after a game Saturday in Chicago. Plesac was forced to travel home separately from the club Sunday, while Clevinger flew home with teammates without disclosing that he had been with Plesac. Cleveland said Clevinger will be quarantined and tested until he registers two negative results in 72 hours. Clevinger and Plesac could be facing additional discipline from the team. Meanwhile, Indians manager Terry Francona will return to the club after missing eight games to rest while dealing with a gastrointestinal condition that has bothered him since spring training in Arizona. Share This StoryFacebookTwitteremailPrintLinkedinRedditVIRUS OUTBREAK-MASSACHUSETTSMassachusetts cancels fall seasonAMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts has become the latest school from the Football Bowl Subdivision, college football’s highest level, to cancel its fall season. If Memphis and Portland both win today, and Phoenix and San Antonio both lose, the race is over and the Grizzlies and Blazers clinch spots.Otherwise, the race goes to Thursday, when it’ll have to be known who the two clubs are that will be headed to the best-of-two play-in series. The ninth-place finisher will have to beat the eighth-place finisher twice to advance.NBA-KNICKS-PAYNEKnicks lure Payne from KentuckyNEW YORK (AP) — Tom Thibodeau has made the first addition to his New York Knicks coaching staff. He hired Kenny Payne as an assistant. 
– Wins for President’s College and Kwakwani in male division finalsKWAKWANI Secondary School won two of the three Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Titan Bowl X finals, which were held on Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. The dominant school, coached by Dave Causway, won the female competition and the U-16 battle, while 2019 National Schools’ Basketball Festival champions, President’s College (PC), solidified themselves as the top U-18 school in the country with another championship victory.DOMINANT SEARS
Kwakwani won the U-16 male title.Kwakwani’s Shania Sears led from the front in the opening battle. The female captain dominated early to finish the game with the same points as the current three-time YBG national schools’ champions, Marian Academy.The power player had scored 21 of her 29 points during the first half to lift the visitors to a 32-7 lead. Marian Academy, who had defeated Kwakwani in the festival finals in July, proved their class and were able to put the brakes on Sears and actually managed to outscore their opponents in the second half, but the damage was already done. Final score: 50-29.Support for Kwakwani came from Atalia Rose, who was just short of a double double. She scored nine points (including one from downtown) and 11 rebounds. Holly Grimmond added eight points, 12 rebounds and four steals. Kelliann Sauers, who was the hero in July, scored 11 of her 16 points in the second period for the Georgetown school. The guard also had eight rebounds and five steals as she attempted to bring her team back, but she lacked support. None of the other Marian Academy players reached five points.On Saturday, Marian Academy defeated Saint Stanislaus College 40-27 in the semi-finals with Sauers scoring nine points and eight rebounds. Kwakwani, on the other hand, had continued their dominance by whipping a quality Queen’s College team 75-8 in the other semis. In that clash, Grimmond had scored 16 points and 13 rebounds and Natalya Clarke 14 points, 13 rebounds and eight steals.U-16 BATTLE
Kwakwani’s other victory on Sunday was against Arima Secondary (the two schools are approximately one hour away from each other) in the U-16 male final. Led by Elijah David with 12 points and eventual MVP, Hosea Conway, with six points and 10 rebounds, Kwakwani Secondary were able to register a five-point win 39-34.Kelon Philips scored a game-high 14 points and Jamal Lyte added eight points and nine rebounds for Arima.Meanwhile, in a tough battle, PC were able to register a six-point victory against New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) 60-54 in the U-18 final.PC’s Jushawn Baily shot his way to 21 points and seven rebounds (an MVP performance). Support came from Gabriel Lim, who was a ‘monster’ on the boards. Lim pulled down 23 rebounds to go with his 16 points.Kadeen Dover finished with an impressive 21 points, seven rebounds and six steals for NATI while Charles Williams added a double double (15 points and 13 rebounds).
Today’s stage leaves Tipp Town at 10am – an hour earlier than planned – and takes the riders 156 kilometres to Bearna in Galway passing through Monard, Newport and Birdhill along the way with Lukas Postlberger of Austria in the leaders Yellow Jersey. The Italian had won the opening stage into Carlow on Sunday to take the race lead.However at the end of yesterdays stage which was won by New Zealands Adam Gate of the An Post Sean Kelly team race officials disqualified Reda for getting a tow from a team car following a puncture as the bunch went through the Glen of Aherlow.The stage was enlivened by a breakaway which included Bryan McCrystal and Tipp’s Simon Ryan with the Dundalk man only caught in the closing kilometres.